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Yeah - it took place during the Boston Marathon.  There's a lot of news coverage of it.   

Please don't jump to conclusions about who might be responsible for this tragedy - let's keep the conversation focused on the event and how we can help by spreading information.

I literally just heard about this through this topic, actually.
Really really a shame and a tragedy. D: My condolences.

Yeah, my LA teacher told us because it happened during Language arts 9th period

Really sad    It sucks it happened so close to my birthday.

Animeboy975 wrote:

Yeah, my LA teacher told us because it happened during Language arts 9th period

Really sad    It sucks it happened so close to my birthday.

Well there are always millions of people whose birthdays are on that exact day of any tragedy actually.

I didn't even realize it was this serious until I got to my nana's and saw all of the TVs were onto the news coverage. The teacher mentioned something about it, I wasn't really listening though.

Wow.

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jackrulez wrote:

Three bombs, actually. Two at the finish line of the marathon and one at JFK Library. D:

4 i thought. They disabled the third and think they found the 4th

funelephant wrote:

12 dead. I can't. People went to a marathon, and get bombed. What kind of...

I really don't know who would be that evil. I really don't...

The thing that really gets me is that it can't be stopped, and that's it's reality.

Its hard to believe, but this is the world. This is the state of our world. Every day you see some crime, some murder, some shooting, some bombing. Every. Single. Day. Its almost becoming routine now. The world has devolved somehow and its becoming an increasingly common thing.

And no one can stop it.

No matter how many activists there are, no matter how many protests are made, no matter how much word is spread, no matter how many laws are passed, the problem cannot be so simply eradicated. It will linger, it will stay, it will influence. It is a chain. One thing happens, sure enough something else will happen not too far from then. First the Aurora shooting, then Newtown, and now this. It will keep going for a while. A lot of people have trouble coming to terms with this but they cannot fight reality.

Basically what I'm saying is that it really sucks that these things happen, but that it cannot be easily stopped. Its human nature. We are more primitive and stupid than we can ever imagine.

Animeboy975 wrote:

Yeah, my LA teacher told us because it happened during Language arts 9th period

Really sad :( It sucks it happened so close to my birthday.

Nine periods? :o

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banana500 wrote:

The thing that really gets me is that it can't be stopped, and that's it's reality.

Its hard to believe, but this is the world. This is the state of our world. Every day you see some crime, some murder, some shooting, some bombing. Every. Single. Day. Its almost becoming routine now. The world has devolved somehow and its becoming an increasingly common thing.

And no one can stop it.

No matter how many activists there are, no matter how many protests are made, no matter how much word is spread, no matter how many laws are passed, the problem cannot be so simply eradicated. It will linger, it will stay, it will influence. It is a chain. One thing happens, sure enough something else will happen not too far from then. First the Aurora shooting, then Newtown, and now this. It will keep going for a while. A lot of people have trouble coming to terms with this but they cannot fight reality.

Basically what I'm saying is that it really sucks that these things happen, but that it cannot be easily stopped. Its human nature. We are more primitive and stupid than we can ever imagine.

Animeboy975 wrote:

Yeah, my LA teacher told us because it happened during Language arts 9th period

Really sad    It sucks it happened so close to my birthday.

Nine periods? 

Yeah. each is 47 minutes.

qwerts9000 wrote:

¿who Did This?

We would all like to know - but we're just going to have to wait.  I'm sure that right now there is a small army of people investigating the evidence and interviewing the witnesses.  When they learn something, they will tell us.  Until then, it really doesn't benefit anybody to make random guesses.

banana500 wrote:

The thing that really gets me is that it can't be stopped, and that's it's reality.

Its hard to believe, but this is the world. This is the state of our world. Every day you see some crime, some murder, some shooting, some bombing. Every. Single. Day. Its almost becoming routine now. The world has devolved somehow and its becoming an increasingly common thing.

And no one can stop it.

I respectfully disagree.  Yes, these are violent times - but violence can be tempered and reduced.  For example, consider Northern Ireland.  There was a time when bombings were common place there.  But whatever political or religious stresses were causing the violence were reduced through political diplomacy.  It has become much more peaceful in recent times.  I am not saying that our situation bears much resemblance to Northern Ireland - but I do think that violence can be reduced through peaceful means.

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Dang it! First it was sandy hook, now this. New england is not the place to be right now.

banana500 wrote:

The thing that really gets me is that it can't be stopped, and that's it's reality.

Its hard to believe, but this is the world. This is the state of our world. Every day you see some crime, some murder, some shooting, some bombing. Every. Single. Day. Its almost becoming routine now. The world has devolved somehow and its becoming an increasingly common thing.

And no one can stop it.

No matter how many activists there are, no matter how many protests are made, no matter how much word is spread, no matter how many laws are passed, the problem cannot be so simply eradicated. It will linger, it will stay, it will influence. It is a chain. One thing happens, sure enough something else will happen not too far from then. First the Aurora shooting, then Newtown, and now this. It will keep going for a while. A lot of people have trouble coming to terms with this but they cannot fight reality.

Basically what I'm saying is that it really sucks that these things happen, but that it cannot be easily stopped. Its human nature. We are more primitive and stupid than we can ever imagine.

Animeboy975 wrote:

Yeah, my LA teacher told us because it happened during Language arts 9th period

Really sad    It sucks it happened so close to my birthday.

Nine periods? 

Yes. I have 9 too.